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Charles Wilson
cwilson@ece.gatech.edu
Thu Jun 27 15:33:00 GMT 2002
Chris January wrote:
>>>
>>PLEASE do not differentiate between /bin and /usr/bin. This caused no
>>end of trouble during the early days of setup.exe when setup didn't
>>*always* follow the mounts. Granted, setup is much better about that
>>sort of thing now, but don't tempt fate.
>>
>>There's no need for separate /bin and /usr/bin on cygwin.
>>
>>(I don't care about the procps/ subdirectory, but I doubt others will be
>>very happy about it. cf. netpbm packagin discussion on cygwin-apps)
>>
> I've regenned the package without /usr/bin.
AARRGGHH! No, the *other* way. --prefix=/usr. bindir=/usr/bin.
> As for the procps subdirectory in /bin I was following the precedent set by
> ncurses-test-dll.
Yeah -- a precedent set long ago before the current standards evolved.
In other words, if I wanted to add ncurses as a new package *today* I
would probably not be allowed the ncurses-test-dll/ subdir. However, as
an existing package, it has remained and so far nobody has asked me to
remove it (there used to be an ncurses-test-static/ subdir, as well as
two other ncurses-related subdirs whose names and purposes escape me at
the moment). I have no problems removing that last vestige of
evolutionary history, however, if necessary -- the only prog in there
that's useful to endusers is 'ncurses.exe' which helps debugging ACS
charset display problems...
--Chuck
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